Farmingdale, NY 11756 Frost Dates
Farmingdale, NY: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Farmingdale sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Farmingdale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Farmingdale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Farmingdale places 12,486 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NY, it ranks 200 of 1,951.
Learn more
Before leaning on 11756's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Farmingdale can differ from the 11756 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Farmingdale's frost date answer different questions.